25/7/2008 Get your Stabilisers t-shirts and back catalogue at knockdown dollar prices! Wicked Cool are doing some dodgy deals for our stuff here. It's dead cheap, specially the t-shirt/2 CD deal. I mean, $23?! You can barely get a skinny decaff grande frappucino with cinammon sprinkles for that money over here. Must be the credit crunch... still, take advantage now, before they go bust.

COOLEST SONGS IN THE WORLD VOL 6 features 'Belinda'.... finally we get our turn on of these really quite good compilations. Have a look at the rather splendid promo video here...

22/4/2008 Rare first album now available via digital download... and of course on CD. Our first album 'Last Chance Saloon' from 2004, which never really had a proper release, has now been made available by Wicked Cool records. If you're an old Luddite and stil prefer owning a bit of plastic rather than some ones and zeros you can still get the CD as well. Although a CD is still ones and zeros... Bring back wax cylinders.
Download and CD are at bargain basement prices from the Wicked Cool Store.
And you can still by a variety of Stabilisers branded products from us here

4/4/2008 Are old style websites on the way out? We keep forgetting about this site - it's all Myspace these days. So if you're after a sneak preview of some new songs get over to our Myspace site.
But for those of you who are sticking with this, here's a couple of advance titbits:
Official Stabilisers/WickedCool/Underground Garage t-shirts are on the way..
All our back catalogue songs not available on the recent Wicked Cool compilation 'Wanna do the wild.....etc' will soon be available for download via I-Tunes. If you still hanker after old fashioned CDs and prehistoric vinyl write to us here - we still have some copies of the original releases. Have a look here
Some new and extra fawning reviews here. Who are we to argue?

3/1/2008 ...and back again without a scratch. Welcome to 2008. If we can overcome our ingrained laziness, we may try to be a little more busy this year. You, know, do a few more gigs, release a new album, conquer the USA, get a number 1, split up due to musical differences, reform at the O2 etc. On the other hand, why change a losing formula.
The New York trip was great. The Hawaiian Tropic Zone is not exactly a typical rocknroll joint, but it was a good night of ass-kicking (I believe that's the correct term) sounds with The Woggles and The Gripweeds. And the waitresses wear bikinis... just this side of tacky (or maybe that side), but it made dinnertime quite pleasant. We also played The Magnetic Field in Brooklyn, a small music bar just over the Brooklyn Bridge. More our sort of place really. Then it was straight off to the airport, pausing only to smash the window of our limo... no it wasn't a wanton act of 70's style rock aggression. The driver had locked us all out of the vehicle (including himself), we had a plane to catch, it was 4.30am, it was snowing...What's a self respecting punk/garage/rocknroll/mod band to do?

We've got some gigs coming up in Jan.....

9/11/2007 From Rochester to New York...
We've got a couple of gigs coming up in December. On Friday 7th we're cramming ourselves onto the tiny 'stage' (or pool area) at the Nag's Head in Rochester. On Wednesday 12th we'll be swaggering onto the slightly bigger stage of The Hawaiian Tropic Zone in New York, USA.

A couple of reviews for the new album here

'Belinda' was the 'Coolest Song in the World' a few weeks ago...
Video here

A couple of songs recorded live at the Dirty Water Club here

9/10/2007
We've been a bit lazy with this website recently...
 So here's a collection of little snippets of news for that rare breed, the Stabilisers fan...
We did a gig at the Dirty Water Club and there's a video of a couple of songs here
We've been in the studio a lot in the last few months...
recorded at least 15 brand new songs for the next album, with some more on the way. Probably looking at this time next year for that release, but we can't switch off the creative flow. Those of you who've come to any of our recent gigs will have heard a few of these new songs. 'I feel like Jimmy White' seems to be an early favourite.
We recorded a couple of Christmas songs...
 one original and one cover, for a projected Christmas album for Wicked Cool. It was going to be this year, but everyone forgot that Christmas starts in September these days. So it's been put back until Christmas 2008. Look out for the big budget videos as well.
We did an extended remix of 'Love is Easy in the Summertime'....
but it got chucked. Shame. We liked it. You will however see a new video for the original version of the song, made by Wicked Cool, sometime. Although it may be next summer.
So it looks like 2008 may be a busier year if these projects all happen. And if we get our finger out and do some gigs, so much the better!

ABSOLUTELY DEFINITELY THE ALBUM RELEASE DATE!
Our first album for Wicked Cool Records will be released on 7th August 2007. You can order it now from their website. And 'Belinda' was Coolest Song in the World This Week on Little Steven's Underground garage radio show 12/8/07. It'll be on what I believe is called 'heavy rotation' for a few weeks...

24/7/2007 We've got a track on a compilation album....
Our old friends at Acid Jazz have a new compilation out called 'Hipsters - A Collection Of Contemporary Mod and Garage Bands'. You'll find '100 Year Old Riff' from our first album on it. Are we a Mod or a Garage band? Who knows...or cares... but we seem to fit in OK. It has a picture of a scooter on the front. More details here

14/6/2007 - Date change for Lounge on the Farm festival.
Our slot has been moved to Friday 13th July, 10pm on the Sheep Dip Stage. Details here

8/6/2007 'NEW' ALBUM OUT SOON!
'Why the inverted commas around 'new'' you ask... Or maybe you don't. But we'll tell you anyway.
Next month (July) our debut album for US based label Wicked Cool is released. It shares its title with our previous release on Acid Jazz, 'Wanna do the wild plastic brane love thing?', but it ISN'T the same album! They just liked that title, and as the old album will be deleted when the current pressing is gone, it seemed OK to re-use it. And seeing as our resident member of the landed gentry, Lord Corbey de Brockley, is a keen advocate of re-cycling and saving the planet, we thought it would be a good idea if we didn't contribute to the growing problem of wasted words being dumped in virtual landfill sites across cyberspace. Ever keen to show our environmental credentials, we've also recycled a few songs and dug up a few scandalously discarded riffs..
Enough of the waffle - the album was compiled by Little Steven from our entire back catalogue. The 13 songs chosen include material from 'Last Chance Saloon', the EP 'Evil Picnic', the orginal 'Wanna do....' and some previously unreleased songs which we'd forgotten about. It was strange to have someone else choosing our songs, but the choice and running order works. We think it's the strongest album yet.
Meanwhile, we've started recording the next one....

 Wanna do the wild plastic brane love thing?
 

16/04/2007 GIGS AND STUFF
We nearly lurched back into life a couple of months ago with that Windmill gig, but it was a false dawn....
Now we really have roused ourselves from our post xmas/tour slumber and got on our bikes, as it were. We're playing at the world reknowned Tap 'n' Tin in Chatham on Monday 23rd April. See the gig page for more details.
Got a festival date in July as well. More coming...
Meanwhile, our album should be out (again) in the summer on Wicked Cool Records.

7/03/2007 You've heard of the Oscars..... well who needs to have their creative efforts validated by a bunch of self-congratulatory Hollywood neurotics when you got the The National Student Film Festival????
Our friend Max Alexander, legendary practitioner of the dark art of 'Knitimation' won the award for Best Animation and was nominated for Best Music Video and Technical Expertise at The National Student Film Festival this weekend for her disturbing video clip for our 'Do the Brane' single. More details here . You can see the film on our mp3s page, or if you prefer to see it in a YouTube frame, go here . Not bad eh? I've never met anyone who's won an award before, apart from Cycling Proficiency.

7/02/2007 And so the mighty Stabilisers machinery lurches back into life....
Well, we've got a gig anyway. It's at the Windmill in Brixton on Friday 23rd Feb. See the gig page for more details. We've got a stack of new songs we're itching to play to you. We were even debating whether to do a set of all new material. Whether our diehard fans will be able stand the disapointment of not hearing all our greatest hits remains to be seen. And there is the question of whether we are brave enough and can remember all the notes. We'll see, as everyone's mother used to say when you wanted to stay up until late.
Preparations and negotiations continue for the forthcoming re-release of our 2 albums on Little Steven's Wicked Cool label. Actually, the most recent album ('Wanna do the wild plastic.... etc) only came out on Acid Jazz in September, but it will be revised, edited and re-issued in the spring. So the Acid Jazz version will be rare - get your copy before they sell out forever. After that, you'll have to pay inflated prices on Ebay if you want your Stabilisers collection fully up to date (in our dreams). The long lost and hard to find first album (Last Chance Saloon) will also be given a proper release for the first time. It should be easier to find this time round. Previously it was only available if you came to one of our gigs or personally knocked on the door of the bloke who owned the record label in Italy. Distribution? What's that?

5/01/2007 And a Happy New Year one and all. What triumphs and disasters will this year bring? Will mankind pull back from the brink of ...... (add in your own favourite impending natural or self-inflicted doomsday scenario here) and learn to live in peace and harmony with nature and each other? Probably not, but never mind - let's carry on rocking in a 'fiddling while Rome burns' type fashion and continue striving for our little bit of selfish happiness in a world of trouble eh?
We haven't started in a particularly sensible fashion. In all the excitement of our little Germany/Holland tour before Christmas, and the news of our signing to Wicked Cool, we completely forgot to get any gigs in England. So we're sort of in a bit of an accidental hiatus.Still, it gives us time to reflect, renew and re-imagine our brand in the light of the latest musical developments. Give us a minute...... sod it, we'll just carry on doing the same old rubbish. Maybe on newer amps though.
Oh yes, our tour was a good laugh. Thanks to all those who came to the gigs, and a big middle finger to those who didn't. You know who you are. Or maybe you don't. In which case, physician heal thyself before casting the first stone in the glass house. Beware - The Wide Mover is a-coming. Wibble.

12/12/06 AT LAST THE WORLD CAN BE TOLD.... Little Steven's new label Wicked Cool is buying the rights to our latest album 'Wanna do the wild plastic brane love thing?' from Acid Jazz in the new year to give it a full USA and worldwide release. Not only that - they are also going to make our highly obscure first album 'Last Chance Saloon' available. Previously you had to be personal friend of ours or the bloke who said he was releasing it to get a copy...
AND.... we are on tour in Germany and Holland from Friday 15th. Details here. Truly our cup doth runneth over in festive type fashion. And a Merry Christmas to you to.

17/11/06 'Wanna' was again played on Little Steven's Underground Garage radio show this week. And there's a few more reviews for you to peruse before you dash to Amazon and buy the album. Or I-tunes. You know you want to...

MULTI-MILLION DOLLAR BUDGET VIDEO OF 'WANNA' AVAILABLE NOW....
Go to AT&T Blue Room website, click on the Underground Garage dropdown on the left and click on our name (our name in capitals, 'Coolest Song In The World', well above Jerry Lee Lewis and Bruce Springsteen. Rightfully so I think) and see what is possible when you combine 20 minutes of pratting about on a couple of Digicams and splice it with some random stock footage...
Also this week - 'Wanna' was played on Little Steven's Underground Garage radio show, again 'Coolest song in the World this week'. Hear it here - click on Listen to the Show. He plays a great selection of music old and new, but you can jump straight to our song by going to track 7 on the little juke box thing.

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